Money. Power. Business.
And the absurd systems
holding everything together.
Important subjects · Inappropriate levels of honesty
The bits people send each other. On YouTube and Instagram.
Why Does Amex Pay Delta Over $8 Billion?
Are Lab Diamonds Worth Nothing?
Airlines Are a Terrible Business. So Why Do Billionaires Invest? | Gary Leff
$600 Million in Diamonds Fits in a Basketball
Where Do the World's Best Diamonds Come From?
Diamonds Are Forever. So Why Is the Industry Losing Money?
Why Diamond Prices Are Crashing
Canada: The Country That Shouldn't Work
Oil Rich, But We're Poor? I Drink Your Milkshake
Is Canada Breaking Up? | Duane Bratt
London's New Homes Pipeline Is Broken. Why?
HBO's Tender Is Fiction. Why Does It Look Like Wirecard?
I Exposed the Wirecard Scandal. Would I Do It Again? | Pav Gill
Zero Percent Tax: Abu Dhabi vs Europe
20% Profit to Minus 20%: Why Developers Can't Build
London Property Used to Double. Not Anymore.
Europeans Are Buying a Plan B in the UAE
Ex-Private Banker: Where Should Your Savings Go Now?
Ashley Osborne
More Women Than Men Now Ask for a Prenup. Why?
After Cars, Which Industry Is Next? | Max Brandt
Max Brandt
Jan de Quay
James Levy-Newman
Steve & Samantha Benmor
China Stopped Wanting Porsche. Why?
Octavian Pilati
Steve & Samantha Benmor
Paul Habert
Tasnim Khalid
Octavian Pilati
Octavian Pilati
Jan de Quay
Tasnim Khalid
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Christopher Hütwohl
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Jan de Quay
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Damon Healey
Damon Healey
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Paul Habert
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Damon Healey
13 · Gary Leff
12 · Duane Bratt
11 · Ashley Osborne
Is the UK pushing small landlords out of renting? Ashley Osborne, founder of PRSim and former head of UK residential at Colliers, on who will own the homes people rent, and why investors are leaving London for Abu Dhabi.
10 · James Levy-Newman
Governments never repay their debt, they roll it over. James Levy-Newman, ex-Merrill Lynch, on why the bond market matters more than stocks and what that means for your money.
09 · Max Brandt
Europe invented much of the technology and China scaled it. Max Brandt, author of the SPIEGEL bestseller China Speed, on what that means for German carmakers.
08 · Steve & Samantha Benmor
What happens to the family home when one household becomes two, told by a divorce lawyer and a realtor in Toronto.
I’m Sheelam Chadha.
I’m an investor, a commercial real-estate executive and relentlessly curious about technology, business and why supposedly intelligent systems so often make absolutely no sense.
I’ve spent my career buying and selling very large buildings. Hooray. And some small ones. Not to discriminate.
I also run Dry Capital, teach private equity and raise two small children — which is substantially less predictable than any investment market.
And, in case you haven’t realised, I’m a woman.
But Load Bearing is not a real-estate podcast. The world is not just about bricks. It’s about money, power, technology, ambition and the strange systems holding everything together.
I speak to investors, entrepreneurs, technologists and other interesting people about what they’re building, what is going wrong, and what they actually think when nobody has given them an approved corporate answer.
There will be serious ideas, inappropriate levels of honesty and, occasionally, useful information.
Welcome to Load Bearing.
Full episodes on video and audio. Shorts wherever you scroll.
Notes from the recordings, the questions guests refused to answer, and the occasional expensive mistake of her own. Weekly when the show is running. Never more than that.
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